Ivano Caponigro at UCSD writes: I'm working on a biography of Richard Montague (1930-1971) that aims to reconstruct his intellectual and personal life, his contributions, and his legacy.  Please contact me if you knew him personally (or just met him a few times) or have any material from him or about him (letters, manuscripts, pictures, … Continue reading Help sought for a biography of Richard Montague

My Doktorvater Paolo Mancosu has a new book: Inside the Zhivago Storm, on the publication history of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. That's the kind of scholar Paolo is: write a 400-page literary thriller because his duties as department chair at Berkeley keep him from doing his "real" work as a logician and philosopher of mathematics. UPDATE: … Continue reading Mancosu on Pasternak (!)

A postdoc in history of geometry is being advertised at Vincenzo de Risi's group at the MPI for History of Science,Berlin! https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=47973 Research projects should concern the history of geometry, the history of mathematical epistemology or the history of the concept of space from the Ancient to the Early Modern Age. Possible topics include: The … Continue reading Post Doc in History of Geometry/Epistemology of Math at MPI Berlin

The Insight Grant Adjudication Committee (Committee 1C) for the 2013 Insight Grant competition of SSHRC, on which I served, prepared the following statement when the results of the competition were announced in April. We sent it to the CPA to distribute, but somehow it fell throught the cracks.  They did post an excerpt of an … Continue reading Philosophy in the SSHRC Insight Grant Competition

The Stanford Encyclopedia now has a separate entry on Gödel's incompleteness theorem (by Panu Raatikainen). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ (Juliette Kennedy's entry on Gödel also covers incompleteness.)

This last Thursday I held a little workshop to tell our graduate students about LaTeX.  Since LaTeX is fairly commonly used by philosophers, I thought they should at least know what it's all about.  I made a presentation (the handout version contains additional info).  I didn't have time to provide a list of documents/sites to … Continue reading LaTeX for Philosophers